| Spectral Worship | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Guv'ner |
| Cover: | Spectral Worship.jpg |
| Released: | 1998 |
| Studio: | Rare Book Room, Williamsburg, NY |
| Genre: | Indie rock |
| Label: | Merge Records |
| Producer: | Nicolas Vernhes, Charles Gansa |
| Prev Title: | The Hunt |
| Prev Year: | 1996 |
Spectral Worship is a studio album by the indie rock band Guv'ner, released in 1998 on Merge Records.[1] The album contains a cover of "Jealous Guy", by John Lennon, re-titled "Jealous Girl".
The Washington Post thought that "singer-guitarist Charles Gansa, bassist-singer Pumpkin Wentzel and drummer Danny Tunick don't demolish traditional song form, but they do like to beat it up a bit."[2] Philadelphia City Paper called the album "a charming swirl of their cheeky, off-key melodicisms and experimental tweeks and wonks ... Even bassist Pumpkin Wentzel's conceptually ill-conceived cover of John Lennon's 'Jealous Guy' works with a little chutzpah."[3] NME concluded that the album "chews on exactly the same pop bubblegum as their previous releases with a nerdy hook here, a quirky instrument there (castanets, Moog, Spanish guitars, etc) but, unlike 1996’s The Hunt, it chooses to hide its considerable light under a bushel of obscurity."
AllMusic wrote that "the album is a frequently brilliant combination of acoustic guitars, assorted tone waves and other varied sounds, drawing them together into minimal but highly dynamic and well-constructed pieces in a beautifully rustic, desolate ballad style."